Safety-stirrup.



, G. KORITTKE.

SAFETY STIRRUP.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 22, 1913.

1,102,762 Patented July 7, 19M

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GUSTAV KORITTKE, OF NEW YURK, N. Y.

SAFETY-STIRRUP.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 7, 1914.

Application filed December 22, 1913. I Serial No. 808,137.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GUSTAV Konrr'rirn, a subject of the German Emperor, and resident of the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Safety-Stirrups, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to stirrups, and more particularly to safety stirrups which are constructed with a view to prevent the riders foot from hanging or catching after dismounting, or in case the rider is thrown.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a device of this type, which is simple in construction, etlicient in operation, and which can be manufactured on a commercial scale, or in other words which is not so diflicult to produce as to be beyond the reasonable cost of such an article.

With these and other objects in view, which will more fully appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the combination, arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter fully described, pointed out in the appended claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that many changes may be made in the size and proportion of the several parts and details of construction within the scope of the appended claim without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

One of the many possible embodiments of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a safety stirrup constructed in accordance with the present'invention; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof; Fig. 3 is an enlarged front elevation of a portion of the same, certain parts being broken away to more clearly show the interior construction; Fig. 4 is a section taken on line 44 of Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is a similar view, the parts being shown in positions differing from those in Fig. 4.

Broadly speaking, the stirrup is made of two sections, that is to say a strap member and a foot receiving member, said two parts being provided with cooperating means which look the same together against longitudinal and lateral movement, but permit the foot receiving member to automatically unlock itself from the strap receiving mem her when the former is forcibly tilted in either direction out of the plane of the Strap member. 7

Referring now to the drawings, there is shown a stirrup formed of two members 10 and 11, the member 10 being the strap member and the member 11 the foot receiving member. The strap member is made in the form of a flat plate, that is provided upon its upper end with an eye 12 for the reception of the usual strap depending from the saddle, said strap, however, is not shown in the drawings. From the lower end of said plate extends downwardly a lug 13, the outer edge 14 of which forms a continuation of one of the longitudinal edges of the plate. With this lug is made integral an inwardly running projection 15, that extends beyond the longitudinal center line of said plate. In the edge 14 of the lug is provided a notch 16, for a purpose hereinafter to be described. From the opposite side of the lower end of the plate extends downwardly a shoulder 17.

The foot receiving member 11 of the stirrup is of the usual loop form, and has at the upper portion of the loop a hanger member 18, the edge19 of which is arranged flush with the edge 20 of the plate of the strap member. From the hanger member extends inwardly a projection 21, that is adapted to rest upon the projection 15 of the lug 13, a notch 22 being formed in the edge 19 of the hanger member for receiving the shoulder 17 of the plate of the strap member. Upon the loop of the foot receiving member is furthermore provided a shoulder 28, that is seated in the notch 16 in the edge 14 of the lug 13; The lower end of the projection 21 is tapered, as shown at 24, upon both of its sides toward the projection 15. On both faces of the plate of the strap member are disposed springs 25, preferably made of two or more leaves superposed, said springs being attached to the strap member by screws 26, or otherwise. The inner leaves of the springs extend down beyond the shoulder 23 of the foot receiving member.

In assembling the stirrup, first the springs 25 are fastened to the strap member. One of the springs is then forced out of the plane of said strap member, and the hanger member of the foot receiving member forced at an angle below the said outwardly bent spring upward until the lower edge of the l the notch 22 and the shoulder 23 in the notch 16 above described. Upon ordinary conditions, the direction of the force,'due to the presence of the foot of the rider in the stirrup, is substantially longitudinal to the foot receiving member and the strap member, and for this reason the lower edge of the tapered end of the projection 21 rests upon the projection 15 of the lug 13. The shoulders '17 and 23 on the strap member and the foot receiving member, respectively, prevent a disengagement of these two parts in lateral directions, the springs preventing a disengagement in a horizontal plane, that is to say in a direction at right angles to the lateral direction. Should the riderfall from the saddle and the foot be passed through the stirrup and be locked therein,

the foot receiving member will assume a position approaching the horizontal. Under thesecondltlons, the lower edge of the tapered end'2t of the hanger member 18 is brought to the outer face of the projection 15 (Fig. 5), the springs on the outer face of the strap member obviously yielding. A pull on the foot receiving member causes then the latter to slide on one of the tapering sides of the projections 21 off of the projection 15, whereby the two members of the stirrup are disengaged. Thus if the foot of the rider be locked in the foot member, the latter will unlock from the strap receiving member, for preventing member almost instantly, and the dragging of the rider is thus avoided.

' It is to be observed that, inasmuch as both sides of the projection 21 are tapered. and since there are springs provided upon both faces of the plate of the strap member, the

foot receiving member can be swung toward either face of the plate of the strap member and can thus be disengaged on either side of the strap member from the latter.

hanger being tapered toward their lower edges, springs attached to said strap member normally maintamlng sald pro ectlons in engagement with each other but yielde able to an abnormally directed force, and shoulders on said strap member and said foot a disengagement in lateral directions 0 said two. members. I

Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 17th day of Nov., A. D. 1913. 3

' GUSTAV KORITTKE. VVitnessesz j SIGMUND HERZoe, "S. BIRNBAUM.

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' Washington, D. 0. 

